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Deng Xiaoping

The latest stories on Deng Xiaoping, Chinese statesman, revolutionary, political theorist and former Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.<br />

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22 Aug 1904

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Late paramount leader, China

Artist Cao Fei with Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, co-founder of Beau Architects, for the “My City is Yours” exhibition at Art Gallery of New South Wales. Photo: Diana Panuccio/Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art

Inside Beijing-based artist Cao Fei’s ‘My City is Yours’ exhibition in Sydney

The retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is a cyber-city trip where reality meets the virtual in the glow of nostalgia.

28 Jan 2025 - 4:15PM

US-China relations

Opinion | How Jimmy Carter opened the door for China – and how Beijing can repay the favour

31 Dec 2024 - 7:14PMvideocam

China economy

Opinion | What Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can learn from China’s reformers

15 Dec 2024 - 9:30AMvideocam

Hong Kong Basic Law

Opinion | Deng Xiaoping and the Tibet factor in ‘one country, two systems’

With hindsight, the one country, two systems framework bears a certain resemblance to a Qianlong policy Deng and others studied in 1957.

4 Sep 2024 - 10:20AMvideocam

Global Impact

Global Impact | China celebrates Deng, but how has ‘true heir’ Xi taken up the reins?

In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we look at how Xi Jinping presented himself as the true heir to Deng Xiaoping.

9 Sep 2024 - 8:58AMvideocam

China economy

Opinion | If Deng Xiaoping were alive, he would worry about China’s shifting priorities

Deng’s guiding philosophy of the centrality of economic development is rarely mentioned now, and has become secondary to national security.

2 Sep 2024 - 9:30AMvideocam

Hong Kong politics

Deng Xiaoping’s one country, two systems path for Hong Kong – a work in progress

Hong Kong analysts and experts discuss how Deng Xiaoping’s policy approach to the city has changed amid protests, pandemics and economic changes.

26 Aug 2024 - 11:41AMvideocam

China’s military

China’s military focuses on beating ‘strong enemies’ in Deng commemorations

120th anniversary events focused on Deng’s military reforms but, unlike the 1980s, Beijing is now far more concerned about security threats.

23 Aug 2024 - 8:55PMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

As China recounts Deng’s legacy, Xi’s challenge to motivate country in focus

Chinese from all walks of life look back at how their lives have changed as a result of Deng’s policies.

23 Aug 2024 - 9:19AMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

Honour reformer Deng Xiaoping by realising China’s revival, Xi Jinping says

‘We must steadfastly implement one country, two systems,’ Xi says, marking 120th anniversary of birth of Communist Party patriarch.

23 Aug 2024 - 12:55AMvideocam

Deng Xiaoping is heralded as the “architect” of China’s economic reform, transforming a poor, backward country into a global superpower. Photo: AFP

China economy

Opinion | The seeds of Deng Xiaoping’s legacy have yielded remarkable progress

Ambitious and rapid transformations in China over the last four decades have few historical parallels.

22 Aug 2024 - 4:30PM

Tourists pose for a photo in front of a bronze statue of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping near his birthplace in Guangan, Sichuan province, on August 14. Photo: Kyodo

120th anniversary of birth of Deng Xiaoping

Video | Deng Xiaoping: architect of modern China

13 Jan 2025 - 4:57PM

China’s Communist Party

As China celebrates Deng Xiaoping’s legacy, the country is again at a crossroads

Deng and his ‘true heir’ Xi Jinping differ in strategies and approaches, but closer examination reveals many core similarities.

27 Aug 2024 - 11:57AMvideocam

China manufacturing

How China used Japanese know-how to outpace rival in EV, steel production

With a lengthy joint venture in steel between China and Japan coming to an end, analysts reflect on its broader meaning in the context of the two countries’ new roles in the global economy.

23 Aug 2024 - 12:56PMvideocam

My Take

My Take | Why China should cherish Deng Xiaoping’s ‘thought emancipation’

By freeing China from Maoist ideological shackles, the late leader unleashed an era of economic and social liberalisation.

20 Aug 2024 - 10:38AM

This month, China will mark the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth. Photo: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

China’s Communist Party

China still gives Deng Xiaoping the stamp of approval, 120 years after his birth

Beijing has not said how leaders will mark the anniversary but it will be a chance for them to think about the past and a way forward.

13 Aug 2024 - 7:00PMvideocam

Books and literature

‘Do not turn back!’ Deng Xiaoping’s landmark 1992 Shenzhen tour

In 1992, eight years after his first visit, China’s leader Deng Xiaoping returned to the rapidly growing Shenzhen special economic zone whose transformation he had orchestrated.

12 May 2024 - 7:45AM

China economy

My Take | China must stop chipping away at Deng Xiaoping’s economic legacy

Twenty-seven years have passed since the death of China’s reformist leader Deng Xiaoping, but it seems that today there are different interpretations of his legacy – a worrying and disappointing development.

20 Feb 2024 - 9:38AM

A girl holds a Chinese flag as visitors are seen in the background at the Temple of Heaven during celebrations of Chinese New Year in Beijing, February 14, 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE

US-China relations

Oops. US President Joe Biden mixes up his Chinese leaders

The White House corrects the record but social media users still take a moment to tease the American leader.

13 Dec 2023 - 10:01AM

Profile

He’s dressed Michelle Yeoh, Deng Xiaoping’s daughters: meet Barney Cheng

Hong Kong fashion designer Barney Cheng tells Kate Whitehead about growing up in a huge family, getting culture shock in a Canadian Christian school, and rubbing shoulders with the fabulously rich.

22 Sep 2023 - 7:15AM

US-China tech war

Video | A key US-China science cooperation deal is about to end

24 Aug 2023 - 10:06AM

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China economy

Opinion | What China can learn from Deng Xiaoping about building trust with entrepreneurs

Nian Guangjiu, known for his Idiot Melon Seeds, won tacit approval from China’s paramount leader in the 80s, holding lessons for China today as it seeks to restore trust with private business.

17 Jan 2023 - 7:32AMvideocam

Legendary Chinese entrepreneur Nian Guangjiu, who once blazed a trail for private business in post-Mao China at great personal risks, died at 84 this month. Photo: Weibo

China economy

‘Will it hurt socialism?’: China’s private business trailblazer hailed by Deng dies

Nian Guangjiu of ‘Idiot’s Melon Seeds’, a witness to the rise of the non-state sector under the Communist Party, died on Wednesday aged 84.

14 Jan 2023 - 4:30PMvideocam

China’s 20th Party Congress

Deng Xiaoping: gone but not forgotten as China faces big challenges

Tributes from the public to the late leader flowed online on the anniversary of Deng’s birth.

25 Aug 2022 - 9:00PM

China’s 20th Party Congress

Xi wants ‘new era’ for China economy, leaving Deng’s ‘get rich’ policy behind

Since taking office in 2013, Xi Jinping has stamped his mark on the economy like few of China’s leaders before him. But some analysts say important reform has taken a back seat.

25 Aug 2022 - 9:54AMvideocam

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Xi Jinping’s economic philosophy will be in the spotlight at the 20th Party Congress in autumn, where he is likely to be sworn in for a third term. Illustration: Perry Tse

City Beat

City Beat | Should capitalist Hong Kong worry about Beijing’s common prosperity drive?

State media has denied any Chinese version of a Robin Hood-style approach to wealth inequality, but message to city is loud and clear: it cannot rely on real estate to be its engine for future development.

26 Sep 2021 - 10:23PMvideocam

The Chinese and Hong Kong flags. Photo: EPA-EFE

Diplomacy

China urged to do its part to reverse ‘worrying’ erosion of goodwill in EU

China’s image in Europe is rapidly deteriorating and Beijing must do its part to change the massive erosion of goodwill, says EU ambassador to China Nicolas Chapuis.

11 Dec 2020 - 5:13AMvideocam

Xi Jinping

The East Stand | Maradona, China and when football was not politics

Deng Xiaoping’s desire to bring Argentine great seemed borne of love of the game, Xi Jinping’s World Cup dream less so as China’s emergence as a soft power in the sport has shown how the world game has become tool of globalisation.

29 Nov 2020 - 2:00PMvideocam

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Deng Xiaoping

Inside Beijing-based artist Cao Fei’s ‘My City is Yours’ exhibition in Sydney

The retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is a cyber-city trip where reality meets the virtual in the glow of nostalgia.

Opinion | How Jimmy Carter opened the door for China – and how Beijing can repay the favour

Opinion | What Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can learn from China’s reformers

Opinion | Deng Xiaoping and the Tibet factor in ‘one country, two systems’

With hindsight, the one country, two systems framework bears a certain resemblance to a Qianlong policy Deng and others studied in 1957.

Global Impact | China celebrates Deng, but how has ‘true heir’ Xi taken up the reins?

In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we look at how Xi Jinping presented himself as the true heir to Deng Xiaoping.

Opinion | If Deng Xiaoping were alive, he would worry about China’s shifting priorities

Deng’s guiding philosophy of the centrality of economic development is rarely mentioned now, and has become secondary to national security.

Deng Xiaoping’s one country, two systems path for Hong Kong – a work in progress

Hong Kong analysts and experts discuss how Deng Xiaoping’s policy approach to the city has changed amid protests, pandemics and economic changes.

China’s military focuses on beating ‘strong enemies’ in Deng commemorations

120th anniversary events focused on Deng’s military reforms but, unlike the 1980s, Beijing is now far more concerned about security threats.

As China recounts Deng’s legacy, Xi’s challenge to motivate country in focus

Chinese from all walks of life look back at how their lives have changed as a result of Deng’s policies.

Honour reformer Deng Xiaoping by realising China’s revival, Xi Jinping says

‘We must steadfastly implement one country, two systems,’ Xi says, marking 120th anniversary of birth of Communist Party patriarch.

Opinion | The seeds of Deng Xiaoping’s legacy have yielded remarkable progress

Ambitious and rapid transformations in China over the last four decades have few historical parallels.

Video | Deng Xiaoping: architect of modern China

As China celebrates Deng Xiaoping’s legacy, the country is again at a crossroads

Deng and his ‘true heir’ Xi Jinping differ in strategies and approaches, but closer examination reveals many core similarities.

How China used Japanese know-how to outpace rival in EV, steel production

With a lengthy joint venture in steel between China and Japan coming to an end, analysts reflect on its broader meaning in the context of the two countries’ new roles in the global economy.

My Take | Why China should cherish Deng Xiaoping’s ‘thought emancipation’

By freeing China from Maoist ideological shackles, the late leader unleashed an era of economic and social liberalisation.

China still gives Deng Xiaoping the stamp of approval, 120 years after his birth

Beijing has not said how leaders will mark the anniversary but it will be a chance for them to think about the past and a way forward.

‘Do not turn back!’ Deng Xiaoping’s landmark 1992 Shenzhen tour

In 1992, eight years after his first visit, China’s leader Deng Xiaoping returned to the rapidly growing Shenzhen special economic zone whose transformation he had orchestrated.

My Take | China must stop chipping away at Deng Xiaoping’s economic legacy

Twenty-seven years have passed since the death of China’s reformist leader Deng Xiaoping, but it seems that today there are different interpretations of his legacy – a worrying and disappointing development.

Oops. US President Joe Biden mixes up his Chinese leaders

The White House corrects the record but social media users still take a moment to tease the American leader.

He’s dressed Michelle Yeoh, Deng Xiaoping’s daughters: meet Barney Cheng

Hong Kong fashion designer Barney Cheng tells Kate Whitehead about growing up in a huge family, getting culture shock in a Canadian Christian school, and rubbing shoulders with the fabulously rich.

Video | A key US-China science cooperation deal is about to end

Opinion | What China can learn from Deng Xiaoping about building trust with entrepreneurs

Nian Guangjiu, known for his Idiot Melon Seeds, won tacit approval from China’s paramount leader in the 80s, holding lessons for China today as it seeks to restore trust with private business.

‘Will it hurt socialism?’: China’s private business trailblazer hailed by Deng dies

Nian Guangjiu of ‘Idiot’s Melon Seeds’, a witness to the rise of the non-state sector under the Communist Party, died on Wednesday aged 84.

Deng Xiaoping: gone but not forgotten as China faces big challenges

Tributes from the public to the late leader flowed online on the anniversary of Deng’s birth.

Xi wants ‘new era’ for China economy, leaving Deng’s ‘get rich’ policy behind

Since taking office in 2013, Xi Jinping has stamped his mark on the economy like few of China’s leaders before him. But some analysts say important reform has taken a back seat.

City Beat | Should capitalist Hong Kong worry about Beijing’s common prosperity drive?

State media has denied any Chinese version of a Robin Hood-style approach to wealth inequality, but message to city is loud and clear: it cannot rely on real estate to be its engine for future development.

China urged to do its part to reverse ‘worrying’ erosion of goodwill in EU

China’s image in Europe is rapidly deteriorating and Beijing must do its part to change the massive erosion of goodwill, says EU ambassador to China Nicolas Chapuis.

The East Stand | Maradona, China and when football was not politics

Deng Xiaoping’s desire to bring Argentine great seemed borne of love of the game, Xi Jinping’s World Cup dream less so as China’s emergence as a soft power in the sport has shown how the world game has become tool of globalisation.

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